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From:
Greg Earle
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Date:
Wed, 11 Sep 1996 01:43:48 -0700
Subject:
(idm) Re: The superior underground? (was MTV RANT)
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cspot tried to sneak this knuckleball by:
quoted 7 lines there is good* music which has made its way into the mainstream>>> there is good* music which has made its way into the mainstream >>> (Eno!). >> >> What Eno has made its way into the mainstream?? > > Devo: 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!' > Bowie: 'Low,' '"Heroes"," 'Lodger'
Not a single one of these albums was remotely "mainstream" when they came out. No amount of revisionist history can alter that initial context. - Greg Who remembers the days when he used to buy albums the day they first walked into the record store, like these 4 albums